![]() If there is a god, why has he - or she - taken away what and who she loves?Perhaps some help lies inside a mysterious box left behind by her dying grandfather. And most definitely not her mother who stands by appalled at her only daughter's rejection of the name on her birth certificate.What's up there, out there? she wonders. Doubtfully her father who doesn't even think girls like Eliza should climb trees. Probably not any of her distracted older brothers. Now what will she do? Who will listen, who will help, who will make everything okay again? Certainly not her seriously smart best friend Paisley Park. ![]() ![]() ![]() This tree where she climbed to the very top, sat and thought and wondered. (This novel is available in a newly formatted Second Edition.) It's the end of the 70s in suburban Southern California and newly-turned 13-year-old Eliza Mills witnesses with angst as a lumber company chops down her beloved tree, her first best friend. ![]()
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